US and South Korean troops stage beach landing

Thirteen naval vessels, 52 amphibious armoured vehicles, 40 fighter jets and
helicopters and more than 15,000 US and South Korean troops are mobilised to
storm a South Korean beach in a joint military exercise.

10:05AM BST 29 Mar 2012

Some 13,000 US sailors and marines, along with 1,000 South Korean sailors and 1,300 marines, took part in the beach invasion practice in Pohang, a port city about 224 miles south of Seoul on Thursday.

The US and South Korea have been conducting the annual joint military drill since early March and it is expected to continue until the end of April.

North Korea's National Defence Commission (NDC) described the annual military exercises as "unpardonable war hysteria" and said its army and people would "foil" the US and South Korean moves with "a sacred war of our own style".

The two sides are technically still at war having signed only a truce, not a peace treaty, to end the 1950-53 Korean War.